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Harnish Cited for Innovative Technology Use

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Michael W. Harnish received the 1999 AICPA Innovative Users of
Technology Award in April at the AICPA Computer and Technology
Conference in Denver.

Harnish is the chief information officer at Dickinson Wright, a
Chicago-based law firm with about 200 attorneys in six offices
throughout the Midwest and Washington, D.C. Earlier, he was Crowe,
Chizek & Co.’s partner-in-charge of technology. His primary focus
at Dickinson Wright has been developing ways to enhance collaborative
systems and transaction-processing systems. The project that led to
his winning the Innovative User of Technology Award was the
development of an extranet system for a client that automated its loan
transactions. It resulted in reducing loan-transaction processing time
by more than 400% and increasing the number of loans generated by the
same number of employees by 500%.

“By pushing the envelope of technology, Mike is a role model for
today’s CPAs,” says Louis Matherne, the AICPA’s director of
information technology.

Harnish is a member of the AICPA’s business and industry executive
committee as well as the American Bar Association’s futurist
committee. He was the first chairman of the Institute’s information
technology executive committee and membership division.

Great Plains, the Intel Authorized Solution Provider program and
Microsoft sponsored the award.

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